Federal authorities said a convicted felon faces federal charges in the Northern District of Georgia for allegedly threatening Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm and the Barrow County District Attorney’s Office on the day Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee High School mass shooter Colt Gray, was sentenced.
Brandon Dontrail Scroggins, 39, of Abilene, Texas, was charged in a criminal complaint with transmitting interstate communications containing threats to injure another person. Scroggins also faces federal charges in the Middle District of Alabama for allegedly threatening a federal judge, and he faces state charges in Texas related to harassing phone calls.
According to a news release, on the morning of July 30, 2026, in the Superior Court of Barrow County, Judge Nicholas Primm presided over the sentencing hearing for Colin Gray, the father of the perpetrator of the Sept. 4, 2024 Apalachee High School shooting. Gray’s son, Colin Cray, killed four people and injured nine in the deadliest act of school violence in Georgia’s history.
Scroggins allegedly called the Barrow County District Attorney’s Office and informed the receptionist that he was coming to “take out” Barrow County because of purported injustice. Shortly thereafter, Scroggins called the district attorney’s office again and left a voicemail threatening to travel to Georgia and harm the office’s employees and their children.
Scroggins is being held in the custody of the United States Marshals Service in Texas awaiting transport for further proceedings in the Middle District of Alabama and Northern District of Georgia.
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